Deadline: 28-Feb-23
Are you working on a groundbreaking approach to reducing illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade? Know someone who is? Then check out Solution Search: Changing Unsustainable Trade. The latest Solution Search contest “Changing Unsustainable Trade” is scouring the Latin American and Caribbean region for proven solutions to reducing illegal or unsustainable trade of wildlife.
Illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade threatens global biodiversity and environmental stability. The illicit wildlife trade is the fourth largest illegal trade – behind narcotics, human trafficking and counterfeiting. Motivating change to reduce this trade is difficult. Effective action is urgently needed at both sides of supply and demand to reduce the trade and protect some of the most world’s most valuable species and ecosystems.
Purpose
- Behavioral insights provide a unique opportunity to address this challenge. While policy reform and enforcement are critically important, so too are changes by key actors across the supply chains.
- Fortunately, solutions that aim to do just this are already emerging worldwide. This Solution Search is designed to surface, spotlight and accelerate the most promising of these approaches.
What counts as a “behavior”?
- Distinguishing between beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors is important.
- Beliefs are what you know or accept to be true. Attitudes are what you think is good or bad. Intentions are what you plan or intend to do, and behaviors are what you actually do.
- Behavior change may involve changing people’s beliefs, attitudes or intentions, but the end result of what people end up doing (or not doing) is what they are interested in most.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any organization or institution operating in Latin America and/or the Caribbean* is eligible (e.g. city government, business, non-profit, university, etc.). Individuals are not eligible to enter. Entries must focus on activities happening in Latin America and/or the Caribbean. Prize funds must go directly to these eligible in-country operations.
- *Specific locations and countries must be eligible to receive US government funding.
For more information, visit Solution Search.